Goodman, K, S. Parker, JW Edmonds and L. Zeglin. Bridges and Perspective- Expanding the scale of aquatic sciences: The role of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Journal of Freshwater Science, in review.

A portion of Payne Creek, located in the Talladega National Forest, became an open water wetland due to the construction of a large beaver dam in 1990. Since the dam break in 1996, Payne...

Mineralization of recalcitrant dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP) by heterotrophic prokaryotes is dependent on exogenous supplies of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus (P). Twenty years of ...

Biotic diversity and carbon-retention capacity in groundwater-dominated ecosystem are hypothesized to be carbon limited. This hypothesis is being tested directly by the Benstead lab at UA, allowing the opportunity to monitor microbial community composition using T-RFLP as resource limitation is temporarily alleviated through additions of particulate carbon (corn husks).

As the southeastern US population continues to increase, terrestrial-derived inputs of N threaten the water quality of our rivers and estuaries. Microbes dominate transformations of N, therefore their activity regulates plant productivity, gas efflux...